The Fear Quotes

#1. For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.

Epictetus

#2. I do what I do because I believe in the country that we live in. I believe we are making a difference in stemming the flow of terrorism into Australia ... I want my children to be able to live as everyone does now without the fear of getting on a bus and having it blow up.

Ben Roberts-Smith

#3. We need to welcome the experimental creativity that is always searching out new ways of singing the Gospel, and banish the fear that grips us when familiar music passes away.

Michael Adam Hamilton

#4. The middle age pair lay in bed sans underwear and genetics played out to the fear of all. She had a hot flash and he passed the gas they both were incinerated in an instantaneous flash of thunder, lightning, motion and force. The needed dental records to identify the corpses.

Byron Haskins

#5. Oscar Wilde said that conscience and cowardice are the same thing. What stops us from doing horrible things isn't our conscience but the fear of getting caught.

Louise Penny

#6. For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.' And

Dervla Murphy

#7. Claritypoint: You can choose to see your journey as a classroom without the fear of failure. Or you can choose to live in fear and see it as a test. It's up to you.

Kimberly Giles

#8. It's not the fear of writing that blocks people, it's fear of not writing well; something quite different.

Scott Berkun

#9. Physical circumstance will not cause happiness. Or if it does, there is the fear of loss. Now you are a slave to it. You have become bound to it.

Frederick Lenz

#10. Bertrand Russell claimed that "at least half the sins of mankind" were caused by the fear of boredom.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#11. Darker the hell, darker the life...darker the death, darker the fear..." the painter's left-hand fingers where drenched in black color, which he kept on scrolling on white paper until he made a...

"Raven...darkest like hell and life...raven darkest like fear and death...raven...nevermore

Rao Umar Javed

#12. I'm not sure if it was entirely sadness that caused the tears, but there was so much love. And that's all that mattered. Despite the fear, despite the sadness, despite the pain, there was love.

Esther Earl

#13. A German infantryman wrote in his diary, 'Courage has nothing to do with it. The fear of death surpasses all other feelings and terrible compulsion alone drives the soldier forward.'22

James Wyllie

#14. Success brings with it the fear of blowing it. With more to lose, there's more pressure not to lose it.

Seth Godin

#15. Fearlessness is an accounting trick. You feel the fear; you just defer it. I could stand on the cliff immobile, feeling terrified, or I could leap and feel the terror while falling.

Elizabeth McCracken

#16. Hattie clambered from the train, her skirt still hemmed with Georgia mud, the dream of Philadelphia round as a marble in her mouth and the fear of it a needle in her chest.

Ayana Mathis

#17. The terrors ingrained in a child went deeper than any anxiety acquired as an adult. The fear bred itself right into growing bones, mellowed into hatred, and became part of the DNA. In my case, it laced the edges of every cell, like heroin and equally addictive. The

Anne McAneny

#18. She remembers the first night she knew she loved him, the way the fear came rushing in. She laid her head on his chest and listened to his heart. One day this too will stop, she thought. The no, no, no of it.

Jenny Offill

#19. Renew yourself with love. Wash away all the fear, hatred and societal conformity to create a brand new humanity filled with love, kindness and happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#20. There is always the fear of self-righteousness possessing us, the fear of arrogating to ourselves a superiority that we do not possess.

Mahatma Gandhi

#21. When men no longer fear God, they transgress His laws without hesitation. The fear of consequences is no deterrent when the fear of God is gone.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#22. There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do know better, and that is when the fear starts.

Kiefer Sutherland

#23. While learning about phobias in my college psychology course, I came across the fear of long words- or, as referred to in the medical community: hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia.

John Goldner

#24. The fear of the drugs running out is managable-the fear of time running down isn't.

Ann Marlowe

#25. Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs ... I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole.

Maya Angelou

#26. The actor already comes with emotions to the scene: fear, the fear of being in front of the camera. It is this fear that spurs the emotion of the scene. I too am afraid; I don't know exactly what I am searching for. On the set, we are all participating in this fear together.

Bruno Dumont

#27. Life had already taught Stephen one thing, and that was that never must human beings be allowed to suspect that a creature fears them. The fear of the one is a spur to the many, for the primitive hunting instinct dies hard -- it is better to face a hostile world than to turn one's back for a moment.

Radclyffe Hall

#28. I overcome the fear of losing.
I overcome the fear of changing.
I let go of what is going.
I allow what is coming.

Human Angels

#29. Experiment. Live a little. And remember that the fear of absence is the surest sign that absence is direly needed.

Michael Harris

#30. What sustains this "win-lose" mindset is a sense of scarcity, the fear that there is just not enough to go around, so we need to look out for ourselves even at the expense of others.

William Ury

#31. If the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, why would we ask those who do not fear the Lord to teach our children?

Douglas W. Phillips

#32. The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.

Elias Canetti

#33. There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death ... Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

Francis Bacon

#34. I honestly think that's one of the greatest motivators of art - the fear of not making great art.

Jason McCoy

#35. In a kinder world," he whispered, "one I promise you I've seen, men and women flirt and dance and love with only the fear of what it would mean without the other in their lives.

Melina Marchetta

#36. The fear of not getting the reward becomes the fear of rejection. The fear of not being good enough ... is what makes us try to change, what makes us create an image.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#37. America is such a nation of suppressed emotion, and when you arrive in L.A., you can smell the fear. It's the most alien country I've ever been to.

Helen McCrory

#38. If a person is living out his Personal Legend, he knows everything he needs to know. There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure." "I'm

Paulo Coelho

#39. I believe that often people even stay in bad relationships longer than they should because the fear of the pain of dating is scarier than the pain of a bad relationship!

Karen Salmansohn

#40. The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Joseph Addison

#41. A carefully preserved English accent also upped the fear factor.

Zadie Smith

#42. Bear was as beautiful as he was hard. He was as complex as he was simple. He was both the storm and the calm. The fear and the solace. The rage and the peace.
My life and my love.

T.M. Frazier

#43. All is in the hands of God, except the fear of God ...

The Talmud

#44. Theologian Paul Tillich. Tillich characterizes anxiety into three categories: "ontic anxiety" is the fear of fate and death. The second is "moral anxiety," from guilt, or condemnation. The third is "spiritual anxiety," prompted by an empty life, without direction or meaning.

Caitlin Moran

#45. There is naturally in every man a desire to know, but what profiteth knowledge without the fear of God?

Thomas A Kempis

#46. It's okay to be fearful, but don't let the fear keep you from flying!

T.D. Jakes

#47. Laughter allows us to get past the fear of death.

Deepak Chopra

#48. Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.

Seneca The Younger

#49. I always thought that courageous people were those who were not afraid. Meeting Franciszka and her daughter, I realize that courageous people are afraid like everyone else. They just act despite the fear.

J.L. Witterick

#50. I used to be afraid of things like strokes, but I've now discovered that the fear of the stroke is worse than the stroke itself.

Ram Dass

#51. I talk to women's groups all over the country and see women struggling with this. The fear of not being accepted, of being different, of not having a man, all make it hard for a woman to do what she really believes is right for her.

Olympia Dukakis

#52. There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.

Bernard Malamud

#53. The key to learning the fear of the Lord is to stay in Scripture. When you are in the Scripture, pray that God would teach you that he is the Holy One.

Edward T. Welch

#54. I think it will be better when I get involved with someone again, because I made this time for me. I haven't really been single for a while, and I think it's been good for me, to lose the fear to be like this.

Penelope Cruz

#55. It absolutely helped - to write the father in both 'Juicy' and 'Beasts,' I had to see the whole story from his point of view. All of a sudden I understood more of what my own father must be going through - the fear, the frustration, the anger ... the hope that he'll leave a legacy.

Lucy Alibar

#56. In its extreme form, this fear of losing one's orientation is the fear of psychosis. When persons actually are on the brink of psychosis, they often have an urgent need to seek out some contact with other human beings.

Rollo May

#57. Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

Paulo Coelho

#58. Nightmares are for people who refuse to listen to their hearts. People who have lost their way, who are hollow. Fear slips into those hollow places. It is the very emptiness that draws the fear.

Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa

#59. Handling an emotional crisis leads to greater wisdom and results in lifetime benefits. Fear of life is really the fear of emotions. It is not the facts that we fear but our feelings about them. Once we have mastery over our feelings, our fear of life diminishes.

David R. Hawkins

#60. The fear of this delicate and fierce feminine has more to do with our fear of being vulnerable again, getting hurt again, than it does by our actual distaste for the beauty of the feminine and Her qualities.

Alanis Morissette

#61. And yet the fear!

Franz Kafka

#62. Every idea that occurred to him, because he became familiar with it in seconds, came with the fear of having stolen it.

Clarice Lispector

#63. We keep on saying 'Jack' and 'he,' but that's one of the great things about the Ripper: its a mystery, which is part of the fascination and the fear. If you can see evil and face it, it often doesn't look so evil, but the Ripper never got caught.

Jerome Flynn

#64. All the themes of incipient fascism are present, to some degree, in our present-day political culture: the fear of the Other, the need for a (powerless) scapegoat, including the theme of expansionism.

Justin Raimondo

#65. I'm quite all right. I'm not even scared. You see, I've learned from looking around, there is something worse than loneliness - and that's the fear of it." - Dorothy Parker

Nicole Archer

#66. Some things have to be done. It's better to do them, than to live with the fear of them.

Joe Abercrombie

#67. Don't make decisions based on the fear.

Jay-Z

#68. If you're creative, if you can think independently, if you can articulate passion, if you can override the fear of being wrong, then your company needs you more than it ever did. And now your company can no longer afford to pretend that isn't the case. So dust off your horn and start tooting.

Hugh MacLeod

#69. The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

Emile Zola

#70. You don't want to loose your old friend - the misery - You have invested too much into false - Hence the fear to be exposed -to be true - to be naked as you are

Osho

#71. If you are looking for a producer, try to contact established producers. Don't let the fear of theft paralyze you, or you will never get anywhere with it.

Penelope Spheeris

#72. The sexual energies returned, when they're not evolved, are still linked with violence and the fear of power - the fear of women.

Frederick Lenz

#73. Do you know that feeling you have right now? The bewilderment, the fear, the fascination?
I nod.
That's what I feel every day. Because I've never loved someone like I love you.

Tarryn Fisher

#74. When you find someone you want to spend forever with you, you don't let them go, whether forever turns out to be a day or a year of fifty years. Don't let the fear of losing them keep you from loving them.

Nicole Williams

#75. If there is any form of contagion that is adaptive, it is the immediate response to the fear of others. If others are fearful, there may be good reason for you to be fearful too.

Frans De Waal

#76. The only way to live is to forget that you're going to die. Death is unimportant. The fear of it should never influence a single action of the wise man.

W. Somerset Maugham

#77. The fear of failure is worse than the failure itself. So be bold and courageous.

Debasish Mridha

#78. People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail. The fear of criticism, in such cases is stronger than the DESIRE for success.

Napoleon Hill

#79. Sometimes you just had to feel it. Sometimes you had to let the terror and the anger and the fear tear you apart. So you could feel what came next.

Molly O'Keefe

#80. If you're only looking out for yourself, you will always be scared. But if there are other factors, other concerns and considerations driving you, you will always find the strength and courage to overcome the danger and the fear.

J.H. Myn

#81. Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.

Francis Quarles

#82. The minute Putin went into Crimea, what Obama should have done is sent 50,000 troops to NATO. He didn't have to engage them, just send them. That puts the fear of God into people.

Rudy Giuliani

#83. Put your foot upon the neck of the fear of criticism by reaching a decision not to worry about what other people think, do, or say.

Napoleon Hill

#84. The fear of dogs is deep and universal amongst all that are less than Man.

Lord Dunsany

#85. The English are loth to express their feelings, but in my stall in the choir I could feel the pent-up, passionate emotion, and also the fear of the congregation, not of death or wounds or material loss, but of defeat and the final ruin of Britain.

Winston Churchill

#86. Yeah, I'm great. And I meant it. It's a small humongous realization: I'm always going to be scared of something-spiders, the dark, being on my own-but I don't have to let the fear be in control.

Katie McGarry

#87. And, I think, for those of us who came of age with the women's movement, there's always the fear that it's not real, you're not really allowed to determine your own life. It may be pulled back at any moment.

Frances Mayes

#88. There is both fear and comfort to be drawn from devils
the fear speaks for itself, the comfort comes from being able to absolve oneself of responsibility for one's actions.

Iain Banks

#89. There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

Andre Gide

#90. The fear of criticism robs man of his initiative, destroys his power of imagination, limits his individuality, takes away his self-reliance, and does him damage in a hundred other ways.

Napoleon Hill

#91. What makes us so afraid is the thing we half see, or half hear, as in a wood at dusk, when a tree stump becomes an animal and a sound becomes a siren. And most of that fear is the fear of not knowing, of not actually seeing correctly.

Edna O'Brien

#92. In 1946, Bertrand Russell, a friend of Einstein, said it was necessary to use the fear of nuclear weapons to force all nations to give up their sovereignty and submit to the dictatorship of the United Nations.11

David Icke

#93. If you are possessed of Fear, do not waste time trying to "kill out" Fear, but instead cultivate the quality of Courage, and the Fear will disappear.

Three Initiates

#94. Nothing sapped morale like the fear of being attacked from behind.

Conn Iggulden

#95. Birth and Death are words we chose to describe the doorways in and out of a cycle. This cycle is connected to a larger cycle which awaits our return. It is all just like breathing. Remove the fear and judgement to recognize the same pattern as a principle everywhere.

Franklin Gillette

#96. The fact is, I was given a heart. I was given this gift of life that few receive and I had to decide how I wanted to use it. Not how others deem noble.
So I finally stripped away the fear and anxiety, and suddenly life become crystal clear.

R.S. Grey

#97. Embracing the fear of freedom, deciding to determine your own path, this is the work of a grownup.

Seth Godin

#98. The pain will always be there.
So will the fear.
But the pain and fear are no longer my life. They're only moments.

Colleen Hoover

#99. Timor mortis conturbat me. The fear of death disturbs me.

William Dunbar

#100. The rage was a good feeling, stronger and purer than the shame that followed, the fear and the sudden urge to run and hide, to deny, to pretend I did not know who I was and what the world would do to me.

Dorothy Allison